Re: Dinosaur Genera List corrections #141

["Timothy Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

George wrote:

> The type specimen may be the worst fossil to serve as a type
> specimen still classified within Dinosauria, ranking alongside the 
> petrified
> wood that is the type specimen of Aachenosaurus multidens.

Yes, but the competition is pretty tough.  There's also _Succinodon_, 
thought by Huene to be a sauropod jaw, making it the first described Polish 
sauropod.  As it turned out, it was just the filled borings made by a 
mollusc (genus _Kuphus_) that looked like a series of sauropod teeth.

Another alleged dinosaur, _Macrodontophion_, based on a pointed tooth which 
(I've heard) may not be a tooth at all but the fossilized shell of some 
mollusc.

And _Hadrosaurus tripos_ is a whale!


Tim



References

Pozaryska, K. and Pugaczewska, H. (1981) Bivalve nature of Huene's dinosaur 
_Succinodon_. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 26(1): 27-34.
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